Journal of Medical Entomology, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown

Опубликована: Апрель 13, 2025

Mosquito-borne diseases have caused more than 1 million deaths each year. There is an urgent need to develop effective way reduce mosquito-host interaction mitigate disease transmission. Sugar diets long been linked abnormal physiology in animals, making them potential candidates for mosquito control. Here, we show the impact of sugar on humidity preference and survival Aedes aegypti (Gainesville) Culex pipiens (Buckeye). Two-choice assays with high low relative (80% 50% RH) that species-specific. In comparison Cx. pipiens, various resulted marked reductions avidity Ae. aegypti, which exhibited significant differences. Among diets, arabinose significantly reduced rate mosquitoes at concentrations. Moreover, found host landing was not impacted by feeding different types. Our study suggests specific treatments could be applied control dampening their reducing lifespan, thus mosquito-borne

Язык: Английский